Anyways I just wondered if there was a more proper way to mention the programming language invented by someone and written in the dictionary or something. maybe you could think one up for me heh.
Thanks again.

Anyways I just wondered if there was a more proper way to mention the programming language invented by someone and written in the dictionary or something. maybe you could think one up for me heh.
Thanks again.

It is in a dictionary. The most important one probably.

Originally Posted by Oxford

5 (C) [mass noun] a computer programming language originally developed for implementing the Unix operating system.

I would even hope that one of you in your lifetime create a more speakable synonym.

What exactly would be "a more speakable synonym" than "C"?

I mean, after you have mentioned "the C programming language", it becomes obvious from context that "C" means "the C programming language". One syllable. How hard is that? It even feels easier to me to pronounce "C" than "French". Maybe they should rename "English" to "E" so we have "a more proper way to address" the English language "in a conversation" with "a more speakable synonym"

Last edited by laserlight; 04-29-2012 at 10:21 PM.

Originally Posted by Bjarne Stroustrup (2000-10-14)

I get maybe two dozen requests for help with some sort of programming or design problem every day. Most have more sense than to send me hundreds of lines of code. If they do, I ask them to find the smallest example that exhibits the problem and send me that. Mostly, they then find the error themselves. "Finding the smallest program that demonstrates the error" is a powerful debugging tool.

It's called C because it is a descendant of the B programming language.
Strangely, we haven't yet managed to get past this letter. D does exist, but it's not very popular. I think I've heard of an F language somewhere. K, J and Q are languages designed for statistical processing as opposed to general use. J++ was MS's failed attempt at making their own Java.
C++ is "C with knobs on", so it was reasonable to extend the original name. C# is significantly different when using the managed paradigm, but I guess MS wanted to do the ol' "embrace, extend, extinguish" thing they do.
The specific revisions of C that phantomotap listed above are also known as C89/90, C99 and C11.
Although I see what you mean, web searches aren't useful with such a short name. I vote we retroactively rename it to Chiquichiqui.